Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans get their way, more pregnant women will be joining their ranks. That’s because conservatives are behind a growing push to criminalize pregnancy outcomes nationwide, in part by giving full rights to fetuses. And while abortion opponents have long claimed they do not want to […]| Mother Jones
The latest federal attacks on health equity will exacerbate longstanding barriers to contraceptive care, including costs and gaps in health insurance coverage, health care provider shortages, and discrimination in health care. The post Contraceptive Access Under Mounting Threats appeared first on National Partnership for Women & Families.| National Partnership for Women & Families
Advocates have opened a new path to block access to abortion-inducing drugs.| Mother Jones
テキサス州議員たちは、中絶に関する議論の芽を摘むだけでなく、既存の議論さえ見つけられないようにしようとしている。彼らの目標は中絶に関する情報をインターネットから完全に消し去ることにある。 The post テキサス州の「中絶戦争」が「インターネットの検閲戦争」へと拡大 first appeared on p2ptk[.]org.| p2ptk[.]org
Here are some federal and state measures that seek to fill in the gaps HIPAA doesn't cover in protecting reproductive health information.| CNBC
The suspect's motives remain unclear, but "there clearly was some through line with abortion," Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Sunday.| Mother Jones
We back open letter calling for Police Scotland to reject "disgraceful" new guidelines on investigating abortions.| Humanist Society Scotland
Pregnancy Justice's legal director, Karen Thompson, warns: "We are in dangerous territory. This is our reality now."| Mother Jones
After The Telegram published a misleading letter about abortion funding, we spoke to its author about her undisclosed anti-choice activism.| Analysis Archives – The Independent
This Navigator Research report covers the latest perceptions of abortion rights three years following the overturning of Roe vs. Wade.| Navigator
A no-guardrails version has become a cornerstone of Donald Trump’s authoritarian agenda.| Mother Jones
Several proposals followed an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal exposing the harms of widespread drug testing of pregnant patients. From New York to Arizona, Efforts Emerge to Curb Drug Testing During Childbirth is a story from Reveal. Reveal is a registered trademark of The Center for Investigative Reporting and is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.| Reveal
“Women are going to die” because of the Trump administration’s latest action on abortion, correctly asserts former U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill. Showing that the anti-abortion movement is ready to sacrifice pregnant women’s lives in its zealous quest to grant fetuses legal personhood is the Trump administration’s recent cruel decision to rescind federal guidelines to hospitals […]| Freethought Now
One in three women have visited a Planned Parenthood. Cutting funding would 'block these patients from getting the care they need.'| The Persistent
Hospitals routinely report parents to child welfare authorities based on error-prone drug tests. Some hospitals are changing policy as a result. Why Some Doctors Are Pushing to End Routine Drug Testing During Childbirth is a story from Reveal. Reveal is a registered trademark of The Center for Investigative Reporting and is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.| Reveal
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Video shows Scottish Family Party staging protest inside buffer zone in Aberdeen and surrounding a young woman on the ground.| Humanist Society Scotland
Teacher and campaigner Gemma Clark on how to tackle misogyny and violence against girls in Scottish schools with a humanist approach.| Humanist Society Scotland
Anti-abortion campaigners have held protests near abortion services in Glasgow for the first time since buffer zones were introduced.| Humanist Society Scotland
A fact check on the recent arrest of an anti-abortion activist in Glasgow, and the realities of what buffer zone laws mean.| Humanist Society Scotland
We've backed a petition for Scotland to provide abortion care up to the legal limit, solving serious problems of provision.| Humanist Society Scotland
In place of the state, a nonprofit association has regulatory authority over about two dozen of the facilities.| Reveal
Building Bold Futures: Key Themes for 2025 State Legislatures| State Innovation Exchange
We outline our goals and priorities for 2025, including legalising assisted dying, decriminalising abortion, and ending conversion practices.| Humanist Society Scotland
Drug-testing of new mothers is ubiquitous, but protections for false-positive results are not—even when hospital error is to blame.| Reveal
Hundreds of women who used drugs while pregnant have faced criminal charges — even when they deliver healthy babies.| The Marshall Project
Welcome to Atlanta Guide Irresistible Futures: Moving from Impossible to Inevitable Contents: A Message from SiX’s Co-Executive Directors Dear friend, We are overjoyed to be with you for SiX’s National Conference in just a few days. We’ll be gathering over 500 state legislators and movement partners in Atlanta, exactly 10 years—to the date—from when SiX […]| State Innovation Exchange
Research Summary and Message Guidance on Maternal Health, Criminalization of Pregnancy Outcomes, and Economic Wellbeing post-Dobbs| State Innovation Exchange
‘Men who came to our clinic had the same kinds of feelings and reactions that women had.’ The piece below was written by Seattle psychologist Valerie Tarico for Washington Initiative for Boys and Men. We are extremely honored to have been entrusted with … Continue reading →| AwayPoint
User Error: Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice By Kairos Action in Collaboration with SiX People seeking abortion care, abortion clinics and providers, and people who help facilitate abortion care, such as abortion funds and practical support networks, are being surveilled by both state agencies and private actors. The corporations that govern our digital spaces act […]| State Innovation Exchange
User Error: Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice People seeking abortion care, abortion clinics and providers, and people who help facilitate abortion care, such as abortion funds and practical support networks, are being surveilled by both state agencies and private actors. The corporations that govern our digital spaces act as a significant, largely unregulated arm for […]| State Innovation Exchange
Middle-Out Economics: Communicating Policies The Empower Workers SiX and the Rural Democracy Initiative co-sponsored a webinar on new polling from the Winning Jobs Narrative Project, a working people-centered narrative architecture for talking about jobs, work, and the economy that resonates across race, geography, and issues. Following an ambitious research agenda, the Winning Jobs Narrative team […]| State Innovation Exchange
Celebrate Black Maternal Health Week 2024 with SiX Black legislators are spearheading the advancement of Black maternal health outcomes in their states. This year, Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW) will take place April 11-17th, 2023 and the theme is Our Bodies STILL Belong to Us: Reproductive Justice NOW! Founded by Black Mamas Matter Alliance, BMHW […]| State Innovation Exchange
SiX Holds Innovations Accelerator Conference in Denver By: Ida Eskamani, Senior Director, Legislative Affairs We just held our second-ever Innovations Accelerator Conference, bringing together over 150 legislators and movement partners from 29 states to strategize on our work to advance tax justice, gender justice, paid family and medical leave, and taking on corporate monopolies. SiX […]| State Innovation Exchange
Fractured follows state legislators from across the country as they fight to defend abortion rights and expand access for all Americans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade| State Innovation Exchange
Representative London Lamar talks about justice for Black mothers and what it's like being the youngest woman in the Tennessee General Assembly.| State Innovation Exchange
Vermont State Sen. Kesha Ram talks about protecting voting rights, the new "culture of accountability," and running for office as a woman of color.| State Innovation Exchange
Our CEO Fraser Sutherland spoke to the Herald for a long read interview touching on assisted dying, abortion rights, LGBT rights and more.| Humanist Society Scotland
Unregulated homes are proliferating amid abortion restrictions and a housing crunch. Some limit residents’ movements, contacts, and day-to-day decisions. These Maternity Homes Offer Sanctuary, But It Can Feel Oppressive is a story from Reveal. Reveal is a registered trademark of The Center for Investigative Reporting and is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.| Reveal
Ahead of the Programme for Government 2024-25, Humanist Society Scotland has set out our priorities for the year ahead.| Humanist Society Scotland
Montana joins nine other states who this November will vote on whether to explicitly protect the right to terminate a pregnancy in their state’s constitution.| Arkansas Advocate
Arkansans for Limited Government said it did not oppose the other two ballot question committees' motion to intervene.| Arkansas Advocate
Thurston was among the Republican elected officials who participated in the March for Life, Arkansas Right to Life's annual anti-abortion rally.| Arkansas Advocate
Abortion bans, rising economic costs and systemic health care issues are beginning to cause funding challenges and disruptions to reproductive care| Kentucky Lantern
Both the overall number of abortions and the use of telehealth abortion care continue to increase in the United States, according to the latest #WeCount report released Wednesday.| North Dakota Monitor
Unlike other abortion-rights initiatives across the country, major reproductive rights groups haven’t backed the effort to restore access in South Dakota.| North Dakota Monitor
After the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022 and abortion was banned in the state of Tennessee, Dr. Danielle Kelvas quit using an app that tracked her menstrual cycle.| North Dakota Monitor
“There are deep lessons here about comradery,” says author Angela Hume.| Truthout
Tennessee is poised to become the second state in the nation to make it illegal for adults to help minors get an abortion without parental consent.| AP News
We're delighted that a bill has passed to criminalise religious protests outside abortion healthcare facilities in Scotland.| Humanist Society Scotland
MSPs will soon debate amendments to Gillian Mackay’s buffer zones bill. Some of the amendments are designed to wreck the legislation. The committee must reject them. Health committee MSPs will meet on Tuesday 28 May to debate proposed changes to...| Humanist Society Scotland
With buffer zones legislation making its way through Holyrood, our Policy and Campaigns Officer Joe explores a recent court decision in Northern Ireland that could have significant implications for MSPs debating the new law in Scotland. This week, MSPs debated...| Humanist Society Scotland
We look at the key campaigns we're working on in 2024: assisted dying, reproductive rights, religion in schools, climate change, and more.| Humanist Society Scotland
Dear Daughters #1 and #2, You turned 18 and 16 this week — a week for the history books, and one that I hope marks your entry into a lifetime of civic engagement. You are too young to remember much…| Slice of Midlife
Some women were prosecuted for smoking marijuana before they even knew they were expecting.| The Marshall Project
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab